AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF COINS OF JULIAN II (THE PHILOSOPHER) AND THE FESTIVAL OF ISIS
The Festival of Isis Faria
Æ 3, 4th century AD, Æ 3.40 g. DEO SEP – APIDI Draped bust of Serapis l. Rev. VOTA – PVBLICA Isis walking l. holding sistrum and situla. C 92 var. (bust r.). Aflöldi 173 and pl. X, 34 (this coin illustrated).
Pierced and possibly an 19th century cast. A minor metal flaw on obverse. About very fine
Ex Gilhofer & Ranschburg-Hess 22 May 1935, Trau 4363, and Sternberg XXXIII, 1997, 402 sales.